Nay, here are oaks and galingale: the hum of housing bees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

Ingredients: One swan (with giblets); lard; salt; broth; toasted breadcrumbs; ginger; galingale (an aromatic root); red wine vinegar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Himera, the galingale hummed over by the bees, and the pine that dropped her cones, and Amaryllis in her cave, and Bombyca with her feet of carven ivory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

On fine sunny days, it pleases us to hop through galingale and sedge and to sing while we swim; and when Zeus is pouring down his rain, we join our lively voices to the rustle of the drops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Such herbs as ginger root, galingale, ginseng, fennel seed, anise seed, and angelica root are all excellent to use for gastrointestinal problems caused by coldness, including abdominal pains, indigestion, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

Sauce: Take the issue giblets & wash it well, & scour the guts well with salt, & boil the issue all together, & wash it well & hew it small, & take bread & powder of ginger & of galingale & grind together & temper it with the broth, & colour it with the blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Add lesser quantities (the recipe says a denier) of the following spices: galingale, cloves (no more than 1/2 teaspoon, I suggest), gillyflower (if you can get it, which I have never succeeded in doing), long pepper (Asian groceries have this, sometimes), nutmeg, cardamon, mace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even in a little thing] Reference

Incidentally, the OED has the entry form galingale used by Chaucer in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones/ To boille the chiknes with the Marybones/ And poudre Marchant tart and galyngale" and gives the following impressive variety of forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL.] Reference

Of the galingale and hyacinth, and the lily’s snowy hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus] Reference

Thence they cut them pointed flag-leaves, and deep marsh-galingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

Here be oak trees, and here the galingale, and sweetly here hum the bees about the hives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference

I shall look for it in the market this morning and maybe slowcook a stew using galingale and other regional spices.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And then, without a pause, the landscape shines through the noisy talk: “Nay, here are oaks and galingale: the hum of housing bees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus on Cape Cod] Reference

Elms burnt and willow trees and tamarisks, and lotos burnt and rush and galingale which round the fair streams of the river grew in multitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Pungent sauces of vinegar, verjuice, and wine were very much favoured, and cloves, cinnamon, galingale, pepper, and ginger appear unexpectedly in meat dishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval People] Reference

"If I must eat of it," replied he, "I will not do so, except I may wash my hands forty times with soap, forty times with potash and forty times with galingale, in all a hundred and twenty times.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

Thereupon I swooned away and she sprinkled the severed parts with a powder which staunched the blood; and I said, 'Never again will I eat of ragout of cumin-seed without washing my hands forty times with potash, forty times with galingale and forty times with soap!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

He awoke at last, drowsy and lazy, and casting his eyes about in every direction, observed, "There comes, if I don't mistake, from the quarter of that arcade a steam and a smell a great deal more like fried rashers than galingale or thyme; a wedding that begins with smells like that, by my faith, ought to be plentiful and unstinting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete] Reference

There she opened the chest that she had brought from Ghanim's house, and taking out some of the money, carried it to the syndic and bade him buy them each four suits of the best stuffs and twenty handkerchiefs and what else they needed; after which she carried them all three to the bath and commanded to wash them and made ready for them broths and galingale and apple-water against their coming out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

My favourites: galingale, alaunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [:Acquired Taste] Reference

Outsmoothing galingale and watermint?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

And meadow, set with slender galingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula] Reference

And poudre-marchant99 tart, and galingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Lines 201-400] Reference

Serpolet and galingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses] Reference

Outsmoothing galingale and watermint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning]

Add ginger, galingale, shallots, chilies and lemongrass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin Bush Photography] Reference

(1 gallengar, 4-5 galyngal(e, 5 ganyngale, 6 gallyngale, galigal, 6-9 galingal, 7 gallingale, galingame, galingall, 6-9 galangal(e, 7 galangall, calangall, 6, 8 galengal, 8 galengale, 4- galingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL.] Reference